The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention

Edited by Brandon C. Welsh and David P. Farrington

Description

How can a society prevent-not deter, not punish-but prevent crime? Criminal justice prevention, commonly called crime control, aims to prevent crime after an initial offence has been commited through anything from an arrest to a death penalty sentence. These traditional means have been frequently examined and their efficacy just as frequently questioned. Promising new forms of crime prevention have emerged and expanded as important components of an overall strategy to reduce crime.

Crime prevention today has developed along three lines: interventions to improve the life chances of children and prevent them from embarking on a life of crime; programs and policies designed to ameliorate the social conditions and institutions that influence offending; and the modification or manipulation of the physical environment, products, or systems to reduce everyday opportunities for crime. Each strategy aims at preventing crime or criminal offending in the first instance - before the act has been committed. Each, importantly, takes place outside of the formal criminal justice system, representing an alternative, perhaps even socially progressive way to reduce crime. The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative review of research on crime prevention. Bringing together top scholars in criminology, public policy, psychology, and sociology, this Handbook includes critical reviews of the main theories that form the basis of crime prevention, evidence-based assessments of the effectiveness of the most important interventions, and cross-cutting essays that examine implementation, evaluation methodology, and public policy.

Covering the three major crime prevention strategies active today-developmental, community, and situational-this definitive volume addresses seriously and critically the ways in which the United States and the Western world have attempted, and should continue to strive for the prevention of crime.

PART IV: Advancing Knowledge and Building a Safer Society21. Implementing Crime Prevention: Good Governance and a Science of ImplementationRoss Homel and Peter Homel22. The Importance of Randomized Experiments in Evaluating Crime Prevention David Weisburd and Joshua C. Hinkle23. Preventing Future Criminal Activities of Delinquents and Offenders Doris Layton MacKenzie24. Public Opinion and Crime Prevention: A Review of International TrendsJulian V. Roberts and Ross Hastings25. The Science and Politics of Crime Prevention: Toward a New Crime PolicyBrandon C. Welsh and David P. FarringtonIndex

The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention

Edited by Brandon C. Welsh and David P. Farrington

Author Information

Brandon C. Welsh is Professor of Criminology at Northeastern University and Senior Research Fellow at NSCR.

David P. Farrington is Professor of Psychological Criminology in the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University. He is a former president of the American Society of Criminology, the British Society of Criminology, and the European Association of Psychology and Law.

Contributors:

Michael L. Benson is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati.Kate J. Bowers is a Reader in the Department of Security and Crime Science at University College London.Anthony A. Braga is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University and a Senior Research Fellow in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard University.Julia Burdick-Will is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago.Ronald V. Clarke is University Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.Philip J. Cook is ITT/Sanford Professor of Public Policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.Francis T. Cullen is Distinguished Research Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology at the University of Cincinnati.John E. Eck is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati.Paul Ekblom is Professor of Design Against Crime at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design at University of the Arts London.Abigail A. Fagan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina.Graham Farrell is a Professor of Criminology at Loughborough University and a Visiting Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University.David P. Farrington is Professor of Psychological Criminology in the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University.Deborah Gorman-Smith is a Research Fellow at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.Denise C. Gottfredson is a Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland at College Park.Louise Grove is a Lecturer in Criminology at Loughborough University.Rob T. Guerette is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University.Ross Hastings is a Professor of Criminology and Director of the Institute for the Prevention of Crime at the University of Ottawa.J. David Hawkins is an Endowed Professor of Prevention in the Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, at the University of Washington.Joshua C. Hinkle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University.Ross Homel is Foundation Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University.Peter Homel is Research Manager for Crime Reduction and Analysis for the Australian Institute of Criminology and Adjunct Professor at Griffith University.Wesley G. Jennings is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida.Darrick Jolliffe is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Criminology at the University of Leicester.Shane D. Johnson is a Reader in the Department of Security and Crime Science at University College London.Rolf Loeber is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychology and Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, and Professor of Juvenile Delinquency and Social Development at Free University of Amsterdam.Friedrich Lösel is Director of and a Professor in the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University.Jens Ludwig is McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy at the University of Chicago.Doris Layton MacKenzie is a Professor in the Crime, Law, and Justice Program and Director of the Justice Center for Research at Pennsylvania State University.Matthew D. Makarios is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.Steven F. Messner is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York.Chongmin Na is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland at College Park.Alex R. Piquero is a Professor in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University and an Adjunct Professor in the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice, and Governance at Griffith University.Julian V. Roberts is a Professor in the Centre for Criminology at Oxford University.Dennis P. Rosenbaum is a Professor of Criminology and Psychology and Director of the Center for Research in Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago.Holly S. Schindler is a Project Director at Harvard University's Center on the Developing Child and a Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Amie M. Schuck is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago.Wesley G. Skogan is a Professor of Political Science and a member of the research faculty of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.Martha J. Smith is an Associate Professor in the School of Community Affairs at Wichita State University.Christopher J. Sullivan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati.Maria M. Ttofi is Leverhulme and Newton Trust Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University.Alana M. Vivolo is a Public Health Advisor and Project Officer in the Division of Violence Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.David Weisburd is Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at the Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law at The Hebrew University, and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society at George Mason University.Brandon C. Welsh is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.Hirokazu Yoshikawa is a Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Gregory M. Zimmerman is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University.Doris Bender is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Psychology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.